{{Short description|Historic quarter of Lima, Peru}} {{distinguish|text=[[Lima District]], an administrative division created in 1823}} [[Image:Lima1750.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Map of Lima in 1750.]]
The '''Cercado de Lima''' ('Walled Lima'), '''Damero de Pizarro''' ('Pizarro's Checkerboard'), or '''Lima Cuadrada''' ('Squared Lima') is an area of the [[Historic Centre of Lima|historic center]] of [[Lima]] (capital of [[Peru]]) located within the [[Walls of Lima|old walls of the city]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.viaja-peru.com/eng/peru-guide/lima-historical-centre.htm |title=Historical Centre of Lima City |access-date=November 3, 2017 |work=Viaja Perú |publisher=E-Latin Travel }}</ref>
The area of the Cercado de Lima corresponds to the original layout of the city. It contains the main historical monuments of the city and several of the public buildings of the [[government of Peru]] including the [[Government Palace (Peru)|Government Palace]] and the [[Metropolitan Cathedral of Lima]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Augustin |first=Reinhard |title=El Damero de Pizarro: El trazo y la forja de Lima |url=https://www.academia.edu/33882197 |access-date=November 3, 2017 |language=es |year=2017 |publisher=Municipality of Lima |location=Lima |isbn=978-9972-726-13-2 |pages=395–397 }}</ref>
==Name and boundaries== The area's current boundaries within the city are the [[Rímac River]] to the north, [[Avenida Abancay|Abancay Avenue]] to the east, [[Avenida Nicolás de Piérola|Colmena Avenue]] to the south and [[Avenida Tacna|Tacna Avenue]] to the west.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Convierten en Zona 30 calles del Damero de Pizarro |date=2019-04-11 |url=https://archivo.gestion.pe/noticia/1313003/damero-pizarro-atrae-ocho-firmas-inmobiliarias |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808044711/http://www.munlima.gob.pe/noticias/item/37849-convierten-en-zona-30-las-calles-del-damero-de-pizarro |archive-date=2020-08-08 |work=[[Municipalidad de Lima]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Damero de Pizarro atrae a ocho firmas inmobiliarias |last=Salas Oblitas |first=Leslie |date=2011-10-03 |url=https://archivo.gestion.pe/noticia/1313003/damero-pizarro-atrae-ocho-firmas-inmobiliarias |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190608193704/https://archivo.gestion.pe/noticia/1313003/damero-pizarro-atrae-ocho-firmas-inmobiliarias |archive-date=2019-06-08 |work=[[Gestión]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Avenidas anchas, mentes estrechas |last=Torres |first=Gonzalo |date=2015-08-09 |url=https://elcomercio.pe/lima/avenidas-anchas-mentes-estrechas-gonzalo-torres-192108-noticia/ |work=[[El Comercio (Peru)|El Comercio]] |author-link=Gonzalo Torres (actor)}}</ref>
Its name derives from it being the oldest and most central part of the city and because its urban layout maintains the classic Spanish style of streets and perpendicular avenues that form homogeneously square [[city block|blocks]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Martín |first1=Eva María |last2=Nieto |first2=Aurelio |title=Territorio y Turismo Mundial |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YnWnDAAAQBAJ&dq=damero+de+pizarro&pg=PA396 |access-date=November 3, 2017 |language=es |year=2014 |publisher=Editorial Universitaria Ramón Areces |location=Madrid |isbn=978-84-9961-160-0 |chapter=Sudamérica |pages=395–397 }}</ref>
==See also== *[[Historic Centre of Lima]] *[[Grid plan]]
==References== {{reflist}}
[[Category:Geography of Lima]] [[Category:Historic districts]] [[Category:Lima District]] [[Category:Historic Centre of Lima]]